PBSO: Boynton woman used company card to steal from dad’s pool business

A 24-year-old suburban Boynton Beach woman is facing a criminal charge after she allegedly stole more than $31,000 from her father’s pool company in California.

Megan Zalasin was arrested Friday on a charge of grand theft. She was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Saturday after posting $5,000 bail.

Zalasin, formerly of Vacaville, Calif., a suburb halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco, allegedly made fraudulent withdrawals from the business account of Perfect Pools after moving to Florida in February 2014. The alleged transactions occurred from April to June 2014, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.

According to an arrest report made public Monday, Zalasin worked for five years at Perfect Pools before moving to Florida. Her father told deputies he tried to have Zalasin removed as an authorized signer on the company’s account and asked her to return a company ATM card. The man said he learned from his bank that someone had been accessing the account from Florida.

In September, deputies went to suburban Boynton Beach to speak to Zalasin at her grandmother’s home. Zalasin allegedly told deputies she returned the ATM card and keys to her father when she moved to Florida, but discovered she had another card while cleaning out her wallet, the report said.

She reportedly told deputies she drained her personal account helping a friend, so she decided to use the other business card. She allegedly told deputies that her father had given her permission to use the card in case of an emergency.

Deputies reportedly obtained an email in which Zalasin, who also goes by the name Megan Perkgakis, confessed to making the fraudulent withdrawals. However, Zalasin told deputies the email was not a confession, but merely something her mother told her to write, the report said.